By Khang Nguyen

POLL: City to host federal election candidate forum

Aug 18, 2015 | 12:13 PM

With the federal election underway, the city has decided to host a candidate forum – the first of its kind.

Unlike forums in the past, this will focus strictly on city issues rather than those of the entire constituency.

“Why we want to do one for the city is because we want to hear how the candidates are going to stand up for the city,” Mayor Greg Dionne said after city council on Monday.

“I think it has to be heard because the ridings are so big … so far they’ve talked generally about what they’re going to do for the riding. The forum is going to be directly what [they’re] going to do for the city of Prince Albert,” said Dionne.

Topics for the forum include education, health and unemployment. The city will have questions ready for the candidates, but there will be time for questions off the floor, said Dionne.

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“We’re certainly going to have it open to the public. I believe whenever we have the candidates here we should let the public in and go at them as well.”

The forum is set for September however an exact date has not yet been decided.

knguyen@jpbg.ca

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